Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
- Pfas are a class of about 15,000 compounds most frequently used to make products water-, stain- and grease-resistant.
- New research suggests exposure to some common perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (Pfas) cause changes to gene activity and that these changes are linked to health problems including multiple cancers, neurological disorders and autoimmune disease.
- These Pfas compounds are dubbed "forever chemicals" because they do not naturally break down in the environment.
- The research may also point toward other diseases potentially caused by Pfas that have not yet been identified.
- The findings are a major step toward determining the mechanism by which the chemicals cause disease and could help doctors identify, detect and treat health problems for those exposed to Pfas before the issues advance.
Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
- Pfas are a class of about 15,000 compounds most frequently used to make products water-, stain- and grease-resistant.
- New research suggests exposure to some common perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (Pfas) cause changes to gene activity and that these changes are linked to health problems including multiple cancers, neurological disorders and autoimmune disease.
- These Pfas compounds are dubbed "forever chemicals" because they do not naturally break down in the environment.
- The research may also point toward other diseases potentially caused by Pfas that have not yet been identified.
- The findings are a major step toward determining the mechanism by which the chemicals cause disease and could help doctors identify, detect and treat health problems for those exposed to Pfas before the issues advance.
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Solution
✅ Correct Answer: 3
Sentences 2, 5, 4 and 1 cohere around new research linking Pfas exposure to gene activity and disease (2 states the finding, 5 its significance, 4 its further reach, 1 the defining background). Sentence 3 shifts to the environmental persistence of "forever chemicals", a separate idea unrelated to the health-research thread, making it the odd one. Answer 3.